Gloucestershire County Council Conservatives have committed to giving every councillor on the authority £20,000 to fight potholes in their local areas. The move was announced at a meeting of the full council at Shire Hall today and will see a doubling of last year’s allocation. It forms part of over £5m of extra investment in roads above existing budgets that the council has agreed this year.

Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, recently met with Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Public Health, and David Jones MP, the Secretary of State for Wales, regarding the healthcare policies of the Labour Welsh Assembly Government, and how they are now affecting Foresters.